Spring - favourite season for mothers and their children. After long cold winter we are so pleased by an opportunity to throw off winter clothes, to take a walk longer, enjoying a bright sun and remarkable mood. And kids with special pleasure and persistence master puddles on sidewalks. But, as it is sad, in the spring of the baby often face catarrhal diseases which constant satellites are cold and cough. Most of parents at this moment begin to think of need to teach the child to blow nose. Only how to teach the one-and-a-half-year-old kid to blow nose and whether costs?
Certainly, how easily and quickly you will manage to teach the child to blow nose, depends as on your patience and skill, and desire of your child to study this "craft". To teach the child to blow nose important when your child categorically keeps out you of the nose with such tools of tortures as Q-tips, sopleotsosa and pear. In such situation there is an urgent need to clean the child's nose, for example, from small insects or from slime, and better if it to learn to blow nose.
To teach the child it is possible to blow nose, using natural inquisitiveness of children, their aspiration to imitation and love for games.
Try to teach the child to blow nose, having shown to the kid as it is done by his dad or the brother. At regular observation of this procedure from outside the child will surely try to repeat it, and over time it at it will turn out.
To teach the child to blow nose, it is possible effortlessly. It is easier to begin to practice the games "blow a nose" when the kid is healthy and his nose is not bunged up. Play with the child the game "Puffing Hedgehog". Explain to the kid that the hedgehog densely closes a mouth and loudly puffs through a nose, and exhalations through a nose have to be short and loud, one nostril has to be closed. Let the puffing hedgehog will run about on the apartment, play with the puffing hedgehog a hide-and-seek. Alternate puffing through a nose cheerful fuss and laughter, and then such necessary skill will be put in memory of the child easily and easy and when there is a need, your child will be able to blow nose.
The game "wind from a nose" will also help you to teach the child to blow nose. The essence of a game is that the kid has to "blow" a nose on easy objects, for example feathers from a feather-bed, soap bubbles, the paper piece suspended on a thread, scraps of light paper and to try to blow off them. It is necessary to learn to blow air, alternately clamping one nostril.
It is extremely important not just to teach the baby to blow nose, and to teach to blow nose correctly. Already at a grade level, explain that the hedgehog fyrchit "a half of a nose", at the same time teach to clamp correctly a nose wing a finger. Do not demand that the child "blew" from a nose strongly, in the period of sharp cold at a strong smorkaniye the hit of slime in an acoustical pipe is possible. Do not allow the kid to blow in the clamped nose, one nostril have to be free and not clamped by a finger.
Be not upset if to teach the child to blow nose you did not manage. Perhaps, in your case to everything is the time.